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  Re: Out of memory, when enabling scattering  
From: CShake
Date: 18 Dec 2009 01:17:16
Message: <4b2b1e6c$1@news.povray.org>
John Coppens wrote:
> Hello people.
> 
> Wanting to experiment a bit with media, I enabled scattering in a scene,
> and, after maybe 4000 pixels (of 480000), I get 'Out of memory'. I
> haven't really found much references to this error on the 'net, or in the
> POV-ray docs, so I wonder if I'm doing something wrong here?
> 
> The scene is certainly not overly complicated. I suppose the memory
> referenced is RAM memory? I have 2 GB of that, with another 2 in swap
> memory. I'm running on AMD64, in a self compiled POV-ray (last beta).
> 
> Anything I can do?
> John

Try decreasing the number of light sources in your scene and see if it 
still throws the error - I reported what may be the same error back in 
beta31:
http://news.povray.org/povray.beta-test/thread/%3C49baa5cc%241%40news.povray.org%3E

I never saw an answer if it was actually fixed.


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